Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work

[email protected] (Graham Barr) Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:51:04 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.subs
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:32:08AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Perl6" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> Perl6> Make length(@array) work
> 
> Perl6> I propose to make length() return the number of elements in the array
> Perl6> it is passed, if its first argument begins with @.
> 
> This proposal makes length() an un-prototypable (and therefore
> unoverridable).  Do you have a proposal for how to handle that?

Well we need one so that we can prototype reverse

Graham.